They've announced an 8 track 'original soundtrack' of songs to be used in season 3 (incidentally, how is a compilation of songs an 'original' soundtrack?) and a remix of the main theme.

Given the success he's had with releases of his other TV music, I find it quite baffling what AMC has against making this music available. I've been watching Breaking Bad and there's a score album of that out... so why not this?

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Not entirely - there has never been any score from House, and that was practically the most popular show on the planet.

The Walking Dead is certainly on the more experimental side, but you could definitely put together a CD of the more noticeable moments. Plus McCreary's name is more than enough in the soundtrack world.

Maybe AMC wants everything to appeal to the mainstream? They should let LLL do a release if they're worried about that.

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I can't seem to get into Bear McCreary's style. There is some nice stuff I've heard, but overall he just doesn't make much of an impression to me as he has done with others in the film music world.

That's what I say about his BSG scores, the only thing in his output I'm familiar with. I find the overall take on it (percussion and various forms of ethnic wood wailings) bland and uninteresting. But in between there are fantastic standout tracks that make it all worthwhile, and me very interested to hear more by him.

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McCreary really channels Elfman and Walker in The Cape... his percussion and ethnic wood stylings are mainly used to represent the antics of the Carnival of Crime. It's nothing like BSG, T:SCC or Walking Dead.

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Don't know if this should go here or in one of the "boutique" threads, but I just wanted to verify that if I want a shot at a signed copy of Blood and Chrome, I'll have to place my order around 1PM PST? And what if I order 2? Can I only get a max of 1 signed copy?

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Yup, you need to order as close to 1pm PST as possible if you want to get one. I cannot remember off the top of my head if signed copies are limited to 1 per customer or not at LLL. I'd recommend emailing LLL

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Maybe but I still admire Williams for revisiting Jurassic Park after all this time and digging up some new music.

It's quite likely that Williams' music, being spread over so many decades and studios, would overwhelm any one person who now would want to unify them under one banner. Why would Sony and all the other massive studios give up that goldmine?

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Today is the day! My full soundtrack for "Da Vinci's Demons" is now available on iTunes, Spotify and other digital retailers, thanks to the hard work of everyone at Sparks & Shadows. I've always wanted to be able to turn an album around fast enough for you to hear it while new episodes are still airing and I'm thrilled to say that S&S pulled it off.

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The only thing I've heard from McCreary is BSG. And while it's not my type of thing, the guy's got some skill.

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I'm not a huge fan of the BSG stuff either but the Human Target and Cape stuff I can't seem to stop listening to!

I can't seem to get into Bear McCreary's style. There is some nice stuff I've heard, but overall he just doesn't make much of an impression to me as he has done with others in the film music world.

That's what I say about his BSG scores, the only thing in his output I'm familiar with. I find the overall take on it (percussion and various forms of ethnic wood wailings) bland and uninteresting. But in between there are fantastic standout tracks that make it all worthwhile, and me very interested to hear more by him.

Wow, I am suprised that more people aren't into the BSG scores. Although maybe I shouldn't be, because it took a while for it to pick up some traction. I mean, give him a break. It was his first major project out of school. Once he got going, some of his stuff was astonishing and just got better and better as it went along. Pick up the Season 4 soundtrack and you see what I mean. To me, these cues beat some of the stuff Zimmer and Silvestri have done lately, and are reasonably different in their own way:

SOCOM 4 is good stuff. Almost Galactica season 5. Right in that sound space.

Pretty much, yeah. You can start to hear the Japanese sounds sneak into the Galactica 4 soundtrack, too, because he was working on both at the same time.

The thing I love about SOCOM 4, though, is that there are like five or six very disparate styles mixed into one score...and it works pretty damn well.

Oh wow, I guess I forgot about Human Target. Good stuff right there. Sounds like I'll have to make SOCOM something of a top priority!

Yup, Human Target actually broke the record for largest ensemble ever assembled for a television episode.